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Chapter 831
"I will think about it!"

Bill Asri put down the phone and said that he was a little moved by this deal. Even though Bernard Ebes was not good in every way, as the acquirer, he was quite generous. The proposed quotation exceeded more than 1000 billion US dollars, and it was promised that it would never be lower than AOL's acquisition of Time Warner.

This means that Sprint's management, especially Bill Ashley, can make a lot of money by playing tricks. In addition, with this merger, Ashley can also solve many problems. trouble.

In this world, everyone has their own troubles. Even a person of Bill Ashley's status has his own troubles. He will retire in a few years.

This is a very common thing. Even a strongman like Welch can't avoid this kind of problem. After all, he has reached that point. Not in position, although Ashley wanted to, but others obviously didn't want him to do it.

He has been in charge of Sprint for more than ten years. Since his retirement, Ashley may have taken over Sprint for more than 20 years. It is estimated that only he himself knows how much he has taken from Sprint during such a long time. However, it is an indisputable fact that Bill Ashley and his family's value has soared rapidly in the past ten years.

To put it simply, Bill Ashley and his cronies, Sprint Operations President Ron LeMay and his group, even the tax money they paid in the past, were all accounted for by Sprint. If it is used to avoid taxes, you will know how much money they got from Sprint!
Bill Esry wants his cronies Ron LeMay to take over the Sprint Group, but the people on the Sprint board of directors are obviously unwilling, and the power is left behind, and there is a faint tendency to challenge Esry , They want to invite a professional manager from the outside to watch the venue, and they don't want to let people from Ashley take over Sprint.

Now Bill Ashley can still take advantage of years of power to suppress the board of directors, but he can't guarantee how long he can suppress.

In case, in the end, Sprint Telecom really brought in someone else to serve as the president, no one knows whether Bill Ashley's old accounts will be revealed, and Bill Ashley is also afraid of being liquidated. In the end, he ended up in a federal prison in his later years. He didn't want to go through that!
Now there is another way in front of Bill Ashley, which is to let Sprint merge with WorldCom. In that way, not only can he make a lot of money, but everything he was in Sprint before will be lost. The smoke disappeared and was completely smoothed out, because Sprint has become history...

It's just that what Bill Ashley is planning is not what Bernard Ashley wants?
After WorldCom merged with Sprint, it happened to be able to smooth out WorldCom's accounts, use Sprint's cash flow to fill in some accounts for WorldCom, and then make repairs, and report several years of loss-making performance reports. Pushing it to Sprint, maybe those bad debts of WorldCom will be wiped out gradually!
Bernard Ebes, who put down the phone, couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief. This time he acted arbitrarily and desperately wanted to acquire Sprint. Why not? ? !

When Bernard Ebbes and Bill Esry were a little moved by this shocking acquisition, the progress of the negotiations between the executives of WorldCom and Sprint suddenly accelerated.

However, Telephone and Telegraph and other American telecommunications groups counterattacked as planned. Telephone and Telegraph entangled a group of telecommunications groups, publicly bombarded this merger, mobilized various media, and began to spread overwhelmingly that WorldCom wanted to monopolize long-distance calls. market.

The Federal Securities Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Department of Justice, Capitol Hill and other American institutions that can affect this merger have all received reports from the Telephone and Telegraph Group. With a reward, I started lobbying people from all walks of life to oppose this merger!
"I don't know what the federal Department of Justice is doing. When Americans need them, they will never be seen. Taxpayers pay so much for them every year, not for them to go on vacation!
In America's telecommunications market, there are only three companies allowed, but there are absolutely no two companies left. Bernard Ebes must attend a hearing on Capitol Hill and explain everything to Capitol Hill and the entire American people! "

Suddenly, the TV in Bernard Ebbes' office was turned off. He was in a meeting with a group of executives just now, and he received a call from a lawyer from WorldCom's legal department, asking Bernard Ebbes to turn on the TV.

As a result, I saw the scene just now. At the gate of Capitol Hill, facing many media and reporters, as well as members of Congress Hill, Tom Delay publicly confronted a man holding a microphone with the ICNC TV station sign on it. Journalists, spout WorldCom and Bernard Ebbes!

Sitch Moore could clearly see that Bernard Ebes's face was blue and red after being sprayed, especially when he heard that he was asked to go to Capitol Hill to attend the hearing, his face was extremely ugly.

"I remember that he is a member of the Elephant Party, a congressman donated by Bruno Song, right?!"

Bernard Ebes laughed suddenly, facing the group of senior executives, he pretended to be relaxed and said, "That fellow Bruno did it, right? See, they are scared, and they will only use these low-level Trick."

He said so, but Sitch Moore clearly saw that Bernard Ebes looked very ugly. As for other WorldCom executives, including Bernard's hard-core confidant Scott, they also had serious faces.

Tom Delay is the party whip of the Elephant Party. As soon as he makes a move, he represents the Elephant Party and is going to make troubles against WorldCom on Capitol Hill. In addition, the Donkey Party MPs supported by the Telephone and Telegraph Group, WorldCom will The pass on Capitol Hill is really difficult.

Even people with a discerning eye can see that under the tremendous pressure on Capitol Hill, the Federal Department of Justice is not allowed to come forward, and has begun to investigate WorldCom. It is even possible that Bernard Ebbes will be called to Congress Shan went to trial, attended a hearing, just like everything Bill Gates went through!
At this time, Scott received a call, and a moment later, he said to Bernard Ebes with an extremely ugly face, "WorldCom's stock price has fallen by 3%. Wall Street analysts are very concerned about this acquisition. Maintain a pessimistic attitude, some Wall Street institutions have downgraded WorldCom's stock price rating..."

"so what!"

Bernard Ebes suddenly roared and slammed the table hard, making a loud noise, which shocked everyone else in the office.

His voice was hoarse, his eyes were bloodshot, and Bernard seemed to choose someone to kill, which shocked the others.

"No one can stop WorldCom, Telephone and Telegraph, not Tom Delay, the Federal Department of Justice, Bruno Song, WorldCom must buy Sprint, no matter what method is used , what means!
Talk to Sprint, make an agreement with Sprint, and the rest will not matter in the future. Bernard said with a heavy breath, waving the crowd to leave.

Birds and beasts scattered in the office, and after it became quiet again, Bernard Ebes looked at the ICNC logo on the TV station and felt deeply disgusted.

The stock price is the lifeblood of Shitong. Song Yang's move directly cut Shitong's three inches. Bernard Ebes hates Song Yang to the extreme, and regrets it. He didn't try his best back then. American Telecom was shot to death, which left troubles for WorldCom.

But it's too late now, Shitong is in the most critical period, even if Song Yang disgusted Bernard Ebes, he couldn't fight back, but Bernard swore from the bottom of his heart that Shitong would pass this test , definitely settle an old score with Song Yang and America Telecom!

When it was reported that WorldCom would acquire Sprint, the stock price did not soar like the previous few times. Instead, it fell sharply amidst the opposition from the media, Capitol Hill, and the Ministry of Justice, which made many of WorldCom Die-hard leek, also began to have concerns about WorldCom.

Of course, there are still quite a few diehard supporters of WorldCom. The largest institutional investor in WorldCom, Behrens, the president of the Fleger Telecommunications Foundation, once again increased his stake in WorldCom, calling out his vow to live and die with WorldCom Come on!
Behrens made a huge bet that WorldCom would continue to win this time as in the previous few times. This time it was a bargain hunting. When the stock price of WorldCom rose again, the Flegal Telecommunications Foundation could make a fortune.

Bernard Ebbes' loyal fan analyst on Wall Street, William Newbury, also waved his pen, and once again published a majestic analysis report, even comparing Bernard with Napoleon.

"You can always trust Bernard, just like the French Guards in the Napoleon era, always trust their emperor!"

William Newbury set an example, not only mobilizing his clients to buy Worldcom stocks, but also using the resources and value in his hands, stud all Worldcom stocks, ready to take a big gamble!
But whether it is William Newbury or Behrens, it is difficult to stop the decline of WorldCom. The dollar they have brought out can only be regarded as an exciting point compared with the market value of WorldCom's hundreds of billions of dollars. It's just splashes.

WorldCom's stock price fell. On the other hand, the stock price of ICQ, the parent company of American Telecom, suddenly rose by 8%. The market value once again hit a record high, reaching a prohibitive $3790 billion. The 4000 billion dollar club seems to be only one step away!

The stock price of ICQ rose sharply, thanks to the news from American Telecom that with the support of Telephone and Telegraph Group, American Telecom, which has been walking on one leg, will make up for the final shortcoming in order to enter the mobile phone market business. It can greatly increase the revenue of American Telecom, and it can also make ICQ's future performance report quite beautiful!

"Song, you should put this news before Christmas, so that this Christmas, I might have a better life!"

When the new head of General Electric, Immelt, saw Song Yang, he patted Song Yang on the shoulder and said with a big laugh.

(End of this chapter)